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Stark [videorecording] / the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation present a Cascade Ash production ; written by Ben Elton ; produced by Michael Wearing, David Parker and Timothy White ; directed by Nadia Tass.

Something About the Author : Volume 295 / edited by Lisa Kumar.

The following files in most cases reflect the published and/or working title of a publication followed by its author/s

BOX 1
1. Attempts to Draw Jesus – Stephen Orr
2. Australian Art World - Annette Van den Bosch
3. Australian Policy Handbook – Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis
4. The Australian TV Book - Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham
5. Australian Urban Planning (3rd edition) - Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low
6. Australian Stockmarket Investor – John English
7. Australia’s Mandarins – Patrick Weller
8. Australia’s Battlefields in Viet Nam – Gary McKay
9. The Bad Policeman – Helen Hodgman

BOX 2
1. Baker — D. Brettschneider and L. Jacobs
2. A Short History of Bali — Robert Pringle
3. A Bastard of a Place — Peter Brune
4. Beating the Odds — M. Mottram and B. Buckingham
5. Becoming an Ally — Bishop
6. Adult Learner at Work – Robert Burns
7. Agassi Story — Mike Agassi
8. Adventures of a Collector — Alistair McAlpine
9. Air Ferrets Aloft — Richard Bach
10. A Little Bird Told Me — Lynette Russell
11. Allies – William Shawcross

BOX 3
1. Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy — Partha Rose
2. The All Time Australian 200 Rich List — William D. Rubinstein
3. Angel Mine — Ainsley Yardley
4. Another Place at the Table — Kathy Harrison
5. Are You Being Served ? – Glyn Davis and Patrick Weller (eds)
6. The Armed Forces of Pakistan — Pervais Iqbal Cheema
7. The Art of Romance Writing — Valerie Parv
8. Asia — David Birch, Tony Schirato and Sanjay Srivastava

BOX 4
1. Beyond the Mist — Peter O’Connor
2. Birds — Gisela Kaplan and Lesley J. Rogers
3. Bittersweet — Peter Macinnis
4. The Black Butterfly — Kathleen Stewart
5. Blindside - J. R. Carrol
6. Blood Brothers — Bertil Lintner
7. Bloodletting — Victoria Leatham
8. Bob Brown — James Norman
9. Bob Rose — Steve Strevens
10. Book of Letters — Peter Breen
11. Boss Talk — Editors of the Wall Street Journal

BOX 5 
1. Botany Bay — Maria Nugent
2. Breach of Trust — D. W. Buffa
3. A Brief History of the Smile — Angus Trumble
4. Burma’s Lost Kingdom - Pam Gutman
5. Boys’ Stuff— Wayne Martino and Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
6. The Boxer’s Heart — Kate Sekules
7. Building a New Community — Andrew Marcus
Archives Nov 08 — Editorial

BOX 6 
1. Carrion Colony — Richard King
2. Case Management — Di Gursansky, Judy Harvey and  Rosemary Kennedy
3. The Changing Face of Australia — Kate Walsh
4. Chemical Palace — Fiona McGregor
5. The Chemistry of Aromatherapeutic Oils — E. Joy Bowles

BOX 7
1. Chemistry - Damien Wilkins
2. City of Sealions — Eva Salis
3. A Concise History of Australian Wine — John Beeston
4. A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at War 1939-45 — Bruce T. Swain
5. Cities of the Hot Zone — Greg Sheridan
6. The Coast Road — Peter Corns
7. Consulting, Contracting & Freelancing — Ian Benjamin
8. Constituents of Medical Plants — Andrew Pengelly
9. Contemporary Cultural Theory (3rd edition) — Andrew Milner andJeff Browitt
10. Conflict, Politics and Crime — Chris Cunneen

BOX 8
1. The Couples’ Guide to Money — Linda Gough
2. Creative Parenting After Seperation — Elizabeth Seddon
3. Creating Unequal Futures? — Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders (eds)
4. Crunch Time — Mike Hanley and Adrian Monck
5. Dark Victory — David Marr and Marian Wilkinson

BOX 9
1. Dastgah — Mark Mordue
2. Death Club — Claire McNab
3. Dealing With Depression — Gordon Parker
4. Dealing With Dementia — Brian Draper
5. Desert Sands, Jungle Lands — Steve Eather
6. Desirable Daughters — Bharati Muhkerjee
7. Deliverance — Don Greenlees and Robert Garran

BOX 10 
1. Events Made Simple — Stefanie Lewis
2. The Exception to the Rulers - Amy and David Goodman
3. Executive Material — Richard Walsh
4. Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do — Samantha Ettus
5. Experts’ Weight Loss Guide — Garry Egger and Andrew Binns
6. The Face of Naval Battle — John Reeve and David Stevens (eds)
7. Faith — Marilyn Lake
8. Families, Labour and Love — Maureen Baker
9. Farther Than Any Man - Martin Dugard
10. Farther Than Any Man (B Format) — Martin Dugard

BOX 11
1. Fast Track Your Mortgage — Lorraine Graham
2. Fatal Choice — Richard Butler
3. Fieldwork in the Human Services — Lesley cooper and Lynne Briggs (eds)
4. Film - Sean Condon
5. Financial Statements Demystified — David Hey-Cunningham
6. Finding My Voice: The Peter Brocklehurst Story - Peter Brocklehurst, with Debbie Bennett 
7. Finding Ullagundahi Island — Fabienne Bayet — Charlton
8. Effective Writing For Health Professionals — Megan-Jane Johnstone
9. The Emergence of a National Economy — Howard Dick, Vincent J. H., Houlden, J. Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie
10. The Encyclopedia of Exercise, Sport and Health — Peter Brukner, Karim Khan and John Kron

BOX 12
1. Making Negotiation Happen — Laurie Dicker
2. Enterprise and Venture Capital — Christopher Golis

BOX 13
1. Growth Fetish — Clive Hamilton
2. A Guide To Interviewing Children — Claire Wilson and Martine Powell
3. Harvesting the Heart — Jodi Picoult
4. Hard Heads, Soft Hearts — Peter Dwakins and Paul Kelly (eds)

BOX 14
1. Health Planning in Australia — Kathy Eagar, Pamela Garrett and Vivian Lin
2. Health Promotion — Marylou O’Connor and Elizabeth Parker
3. Health Science Research — Jennifer K. Peat, Katrina Williams, Wei Xuan and Craig Meliss
4. Gallipoli: The Turkish Story — Kevin Fewster, Vechi Basarin and Hatice Hurmuz Basarin
5. Good News for a Change — David Suzuki and Holly Dressel

BOX 15
1. Get Ahead — Annette Sampson and Joan Baker
2. Getting Pregnant — Robert Jansen
3. Getting Pregnant (2nd edition) — Robert Jansen
4. Get Set By 30 - Annette Sampson
5. Get On With It! — Sue Ostler

BOX 16
1. Hegemony or Survival — Noam Chomsky
2. Helping Abused Families and Their Children — Chris Trotter
3. High Adventure - Sir Edmund Hilary
4. The High Price of Heaven — David Marr
5. Ho Chi Minh — William J. Duiker
6. Hollywood Tough — Stephanie J. Cannell
7. Hotcopy - Deakin University
8. The House at Evelyn’s Pond — Wendy Orr

BOX 17
1. How to Kiss and Keep Your Customers — Doug Malouf
2. How to Teach Adults in a Fun and Exciting Way - Doug Malouf
3. How to Kill A Country — Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews
4. How to Organise and Operate a Small Business (8th edition) — John W. English
5. How to Lose Your Love Handles — Paul Collins
6. How to Organise and Operate a Small Business in Australia — John W. English
7. Imagining Australia — Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan
8. Indonesian Islam — M. B. Hooker
9. In Baghdad - Paul McGeough
10. Inside Group Work — Fiona McDermott
11. The Infertility Handbook — Jaqueline Tomlins

BOX 18
1. Institutions on The Edge — Michael Keating, John Wanna and Patrick Weller
2. Investing in Australia — John Glynn, Rob Goodfellow and Martin O’Shannessey
3. Islam In Australia — Abdullah Saeed
4. Into the Blue — Tony Horwitz
5. In the Eye of the Needle — Dr. Ingrid Van Beek
6. Isabel Flick — Isabel Flick and Heather Goodall
7. It’s All A Matter of Attitude — Justin Herald
8. It’s My Party and I’ll Knit if I Want To! — Sharon Aris
9. Job Sharing — Mary O’Hanlon and Angela Morella
10. John Bell: The Time of My Life — John Bell

BOX 19
1. Kittyhawk Down - Garry Disher
2. Krazy Hor — Stanley Krasnoff
3. Lang Hancock — Debi Marshall
4. Learner’s Dictionary of Modern Indonesian — George Quinn
5. Learning From Teacher Research — John Loughran, Ian Mitchell and Judie Mitchell

BOX 20
1. Learing in the Workplace — Stephen Billett
2. Leaving Home — Sam Koch and David Koch
3. The Legacy (A Format) — D. W. Buffa
4. The Legacy — D. W. Buffa
5. Life’s Little Toolbox — Nils Vesk
6. Literacy Learning in the Early Years — Caroline Barrat-Pugh and Mary Rohl (eds)
7. Lizard Island — Suzanne Falkiner and Alan Oldfield

BOX 21
1. A Long Way From Rome — Chris McGillion
2. Looking After Your Ageing Parents — Prue Miller
3. Lost Boy — Robert Wainwright
4. Love This Life: Lyrics 1978-2001 — Neil Finn
5. Making A Difference — Robyn Munford and Jackie Saunders (eds)

BOX 22
1. Making Radio — Steve Ahern
2. Making Radio — Steve Ahern
3. Making Business Writing Happen — Ralph Brown
4. Making Effective Media Happen — Michael Brown
5. Making Presentations Happen — Michael Brown
6. The Man Who Died Twice - Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin

BOX 23
1. Employee Relations — Laurie Dicker
2. Master of the Ceremonies - Ric Birch
3. May I Help You? — Jillian Mercer
4. Media Matrix — Barbara Creed
5. Media and Communications in Australia (2nd edition) — Stuart Cunningham, Graham Turner
6. Media and Communications in Australia (#rd edition) — Stuart Cunningham, Graham Turner
7. Media, Politics and Public Sphere/Life — Geoff Craig
8. Megawords — Richard Osborne

BOX 24
1. Men Navigating Midlife — Robyn Vickers-Willis
2. Mercy — Jodi Picoult
3. Mission Accomplished — Bob Breen
4. Modern Pilates — Penelope Latey
5. Month of Sundays — James O’Loghlin
6. Moulin Rouge — Catherine Martin
7. Nicky Barr, An Australian Air Ace — Peter Dornan
8. The Nick of Time — Elizabeth Grosz
9. No Pleasure Cruise — Tom Frame

BOX 25
1. North Of Capricorn — Henry Reynolds
2. North Of Capricorn (pb [paperback] - Henry Reynolds
3. On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War 1967-1968 — Ian McNeill and Ashley Ekins
4. 101 Survival Tips For Your Business — Andrew Griffiths
5. 101 Ways to Really SatisI Your Customers — Andrew Griffiths
6. 101 Ways to Advertise Your Business — Andrew Griffiths
7. The One Who Will: The Search for Steve Waugh - Jack Egan

BOX 26
1. The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia — Azyumardi Azra
2. Other People’s Wars — Peter Londey
3. Outback - Andrew Stevenson
4. Own Your Own Franchise - Garry Williamson
5. The Pact — Jodi Picoult
6. Perfect Match — Jodi Picoult
7. Personal Financial Management — John W. English, Barry Hicks, Sue Hrasky, Nikole Giles
8. Past The Headlands — Garry Disher
9. Penelope Bungles to Broome — Tim Bowden
10. Picture Perfect (paperback) — Jodi Picoult
11. Planes, Trains and Elephants — Brian Thacker
12. The Politics of Non-Proliferation — Carl Ungerer and Marianne Hanson (eds)

Box 27
1. Positive — David Menadue
2. The Potent Dead — Henri Chambert-Loir and Anthony Reid
3. Power and Prowess — J. H. Walker
4. The Power of Full Engagement — Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
5. Power, Profit and Protest — Verity Burgmann
6. Powering Through Pregnancy — Jane Simons
7. Practical Nursing Calculations — Valda Hext and Lidia Mayner
8. Practicing the Witches Craft — Douglass Ezzy
9. Professor Trim’s Taste Testers — Garry Egger
10. Promote Your Business — Mary Morel
11. Project Management in Health and Community Services — Judith Dwyer, Pauline Stanton, Valerie Thiessen

BOX 28
1. The Proving Ground — G. Bruce Knecht
2. The Proving Ground — G. Bruce Knecht
3. Publishing Your Psychology Research — Dennis M. Mclnerney
4. Putting Management Back Into Performance — James Webb
5. Qualitative Analysis — Douglas Ezzy
6. Qualitative Research in Practice — Yvonne Darlington and Dorothy Scott

BOX 29
1. Quick Start For Mothers-To-Be — Garry Egger
2. Quick Start For Diabetics — Garry Egger
3. Queenmaker — India Edghill
4. Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia - Andrew Markus
5. Quick Start Weight Loss for Families – Garry Egger

BOX 30
1. Releasing the Imbecile Within — Paul Livingston
2. Relationships that Rock! — Sue Ostler
3. Remembering Josh — Brian Deegan
4. Reporting in a Multimedia World — Barbara Alysen, Mandy Oakham, Gail Sedorkin
5. Research in Organisations and Communities — Carole Kayrooz and Chris Trevitt
6. Restoring Tourism Destinations in Crisis — David Beirman

BOX 31
1. Rethinking ADHD — Ruth Schmidt Neven, Vicki Anderson and Tim Godber
2. Rethinking Attachment for Early Childhood Practice — Sharne A. Rolfe
3. Rethinking Attachment for Early Childhood Practice — Sharne A. Rolfe
4. Rights For Aborigines — Bain Attwood
5. The Road to Now — Melvin Bolton
6. Rockets — Peter Macinnis
7. Rule No.5: No Sex on the Bus — Brian Thacker
8. The Rose City - David Ebershoff

BOX 32
1. Rose — Robert Wainwright
2. Ruxton - Anne Blair
3. The Sacred Balance — David Suzuki, Amanda McConnell with Maria DeCambra
4. Salem Falls — Jodi Picoult
S. Schooling the Rust Belt Kids — Pat Thomson
6. Scraping Through Stone — Judith Fox
7. Scriptwriting Updated (2 files) - Linda Aronson
8. The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney — Maeve O’Meara and Joanna Savill
9. Jungle Tracks - Gary McKay and Graeme Nicholson

BOX 33
1. Scriptwriting Updated (2nd edition) — Linda Aronson
2. Second Glance (B Format) — Jodi Picoult
3. Second Glance — Jodi Picoult
4. The Silence - Ruth Wajnryb
5. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Paranormal — Lynne Kelly
6. The Smallest Color — Bill Roorbach
7. Small Business Start-up Guide — Peter Switzer and Maureen Jordan
8. Smarter Property Investment — Peter Cerexhe
9. Smart Marketing — Linda Echentille
10. Smart Women Smart Money — Joan Baker
11. Sociology Australia — Judith Bessant and Rob Watts

BOX 34
1. Social Policy, Public Policy — Meredith Edwards with Cosmo Howard and Robin Miller
2. The Sociological Quest — Evan Willis
3. Songs of the Humpback Whale —Jodi Picoult
4. Somebody Save Me — David Leser
5. Sociology: Australian Connections — Ray Jureidini and Marilyn Poole
6. Spirit of the Wild — Lesley  J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan
7. Southern Trident – David Stevens and John Reeve (eds)
8. Speaking Persuasively – Patsy McCarthy and Caroline Hatcher
9. Speaking for Australia – Rod Kemp and Marion Stanton (eds)
10. Splitting the World Open – Susan Mitchell
11. Spooling Through – Tim Bowden

BOX 35
1. SPSS Survival Manual – Julie Pallant
2. Star Witness (A Format) – D. W. Buffa
3. Star Witness – D. W. Buffa
4. Stargazer – Fred Watson
5. Standard Tetum/English Dictionary – Geoffrey Hull
6. Stop the Meeting, I Want to Get Off! – Scott Snair

BOX 36
1. The Story of Rats — S. Anthony Barnett
2. The Story of Peking Man — Penny van Oosterzee
3. Stromlo: an Australian Observatory — Tom Frame and Don Faulkner
4. The Street Guide to Flirting — Andrew Bryant and Michelle Lia Lewis
5. Student Behaviour — Louise Porter
6. Studying Part-time Without Stress — Teresa De Fazio
7. The Sunday Wife - Cassandra King
8. Surgery, Sand and Saigon Tea — Marshall Barr
9. Surviving First Year Uni — Lauren Williams and John Germov
10. Girlosophy: The Breakup Survival Kit — Anthea Paul
11. Sustainability and Health — Valerie Brown, John Grootjans, Jan Ritchie, Mardie Townsend and Glenda Verrinder
12. Taking Care of Business — Peter Corris
13. Technoculture — Lelia Green

BOX 37
1. The Teenager’s Guide to Money — Samantha Brown and David Koch
2. Taking A Stand - Robert Tickner
3. Teenager’s Guide to Part-Time Jobs — Samantha Koch and David Koch
4. Telling Stories — Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan
5. A Terribly Wild Man — Christine Halse
6. That Magnificent 9th and The Silent 7th (2 books) — Mark Johnston
7. That Magnificent 9th and The Silent 7th  (2 books) — Mark Johnston
8. There and Back Again - Sean Astin with Joe Layden
9. There to the Bitter End — Anne Blair

BOX 38
1. Third Sector — Mark Lyons
2. Third Take — Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton (eds)
3. This Can’t Happen to Me! — Tim Bowden
4. Thylacine - David Owen
5. The Tin Collectors — Stephen J. Cannell
6. Tracy - Gary McKay
7. Tracy - Gary McKay
8. The Transparent Corporation — David Uren
9. Travel and Working Holidays — Samantha Koch

BOX 39
1. Understanding Deleuze — Claire Colebrooke
2. Understanding Indonesian Grammar — James Neil Sneddon
3. Undertow — Nicole Lobry de Bruyn
4. Unwind - Robert Burns
5. The Use and Abuse of Office Politics — Mark Holden
6. Use and Abuse of Australian History – Graeme Davison
7. Viet Nam Shots — Gary MacKay and Elizabeth Stewart
8. The Viking Funeral — Stephen J. Cannell

BOX 40
1. Visions from the Past — Michael Morwood
2. War Story — Gwen Edelman
3. The Weight of The Sun – Andrew Humphreys
4. The Whales’ Journey – Stephen Martin
5. What Every Woman Should Have — The Herter Studio
6. What Happened When — Anthony Barker
7. What Falls Away — Tegan Bennett
8. Whale Done! — Ken Blanchard, Thad Lacinak, Chuck Tompkins, Jim Ballard

BOX 41
1. What Are You Waiting For? — Justin Herald
2. When the Scorpion Stings — Paul Anderson
3. Where’s the Loot? — Grant Butler
4. Where to From Here? - Fred Argy
5. White Out — Rosemary Neill
6. Who Care’s? - Judy Lumby
7. Minette Walters Feb 2006 Reissues

BOX42
1. When The Wild Comes Leaping Up — David Suzuki (ed.)
2. The Wild One — Damian Johnstone
3. Wild Life — John Dale
4. Women, Hormones and the Menstrual Cycle — Ruth Trickey
5. The Woman’s Money Book - Vivienne James
6. The Wine Regions of Australia (2nd edition) — John Beeston
7. The Wine Regions of Australia — John Beeston

BOX 43
1. Wonderful — Andrew Humphreys
2. Working With Involuntary Clients — Chris Trotter
3. Would You Like Attitude With That? — Justin Herald
4. Writing Your Screenplay — Lisa Dethridge
5. Yes Means Yes — Kath Albury
6. Yoga: The Essence of Life — Alix Johnson
7. You Talkin’ to Me? - Anthony Sharwood

Series 01:  Allen & Unwin further records, being editorial files, ca. 1983-2008: Boxes 01-43

Big weather : poems of Wellington / selected by Gregory O'Brien & Louise St. John.

Boxes 1 to 16 consist of manuscript and typescript drafts of play scripts, some with adaptations for radio, television or film, as well as some correspondence, notes, clippings of reviews, contracts, treatments, and poems.

BOXES 1-4
‘The Umbrella Woman’, also released as ‘The Good Wife’. Box 4 also contains publicity photographs of Peter Kenna, ca. 1981-1987

BOX 5  
‘The cat who spoke’, 1982-1984

BOX 6
‘The slaughter of St Teresa’s Day’, ca. 1958-1985

BOX 7
‘A hard God’ (Play 1 in ‘The Cassidy album’ trilogy), 1973-1978

BOX 8
‘Furtive love’ (Play 2 in ‘The Cassidy album’ trilogy), ca. 1977-1987

BOX 9
‘An eager hope’ (Play 3 in ‘The Cassidy album’ trilogy). Includes ‘The Cassidy album’ manuscript synopsis, notes, teaching material, news cuttings, programs, ca. 1977-1978

BOX 10
‘Listen closely’, ca. 1973

BOX 11
Autobiography of Edward James Kenna: manuscript and typescript drafts, 1975-1977

BOX 12
‘Talk to the moon’, ca. 1963. Includes letter from Robyn Nevin, 1986
‘Mates’, ca. 1975

BOX 13
‘Dr Knock’s Marvellous Medicine Show’, ca. 1982
‘The fair sister’, undated
‘Hamlet: the western’, ca. 1987

BOX 14
‘Trespassers will be prosecuted’, ca. 1976
‘Muriel’s virtues’, [ca. 1966]

BOX 15
‘In captivity’, ca. 1978
‘Sawdust hearts’, ca. 1983

BOX 16
‘The umbrella woman’, 1982
‘Hamlet - the western: synopsis for a screenplay based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare’, [ca. 1980]
‘The cat who spoke’, 1984
‘Sawdust hearts’, 1986
‘Muriel’s virtues: a farce in three acts’, ca. 1966
‘Talk to the moon: a drama in three acts’, ca. 1963
‘An eager hope: a play in two acts. Play 3 in “The Cassidy Album” trilogy’, ca. 1978
‘The slaughter of St. Teresa’s Day’ revised script for Queensland Theatre Company production, December 1985
‘Trespassers will be prosecuted: a play in two acts’, [ca. 1975]

BOX 17
Handwritten drafts of scripts: ‘Happy birthday, Henry’, ‘The last spring’, ‘Best damn loving’, ‘Traces of man’, ‘The perils of upright Bob, or Along the road’, ‘Across the sea’, ‘Dust’, ‘The shooting a specimen flat’ (including stage design drawings), ‘Jitters’ featuring Cassidy character  s, ‘The other side of the wind’ ca 1972
Six page short prose ‘Sister’s letters’
Two versions of story ‘A piss to remember’
Treatment for film ‘An everyday story’
Typescript manuscript ‘The other side of the wind’ ca 1972
Manuscript and notes for ‘Trash and treasure: songs, jokes, stories collected and performed by Peter Kenna’
Journal entries, notes and observations, and correspondence relating to visit to Philippines to receive medical treatment, 1975
Typescript versions of letters headed ‘Love letters from the Philippines’, from Kenna to Peter Basclain
Photocopied sheet music, various published songbooks
Short story ‘Life among the dressers’ relating to Kenna’s work as a window dresser at Foy’s in 1946
Handwritten notes for plays

BOX 18
Manuscript drafts, mostly handwritten, some unfinished. Titles include: ‘The temptation of Upright Bob’, ‘Two birds in the hand’, ‘The bush wife’ 1968, ‘The Vice-President’
Various versions of article and preface written for book on playwright Jim McNeil, 1984; theatre programme and script for play ‘Jack’ by Jim McNeil (Saturday 17 September 1977); transcript of McNeil interview with Tim Bowden
Articles, news cuttings, and transcript of speech delivered by Kenna relating to the establishment of NSW State Theatre Company, 1978
Correspondence from Kenna to Cyril, 1956
Treatment for ‘The revolutionary’
Notes and ideas for plays

BOX 19
Theatre programmes, posters, and news cuttings, ca 1970-ca 1980; obituary for Gloria Dawn; handwritten song lyrics; journal ‘Contact’ nos. 17-18, 20; obituary for Kenna by Nick Enright; programme for funeral of Kenna, 1987; script for ‘Semi-life: a celebration of the life and work of Peter Kenna’, performed at Belvoir Theatre, 26 June 1988; manuscript and published version of ‘Little Chief Yellowhand’, 1985; theatre reviews written by Kenna; outline for screenplay ‘Bello Cane’; Kenna’s nomination for Order of Australia, 1986, including references from Robin Nevin, and Ruth Cracknell; journal ‘New Theatre Australia’, February 1988, containing obituary for Peter Kenna by Katharine Brisbane; article in magazine New Idea relating to Kenna’s kidney transplant, 3 June 1978; copy of letters of Rachel Henning

BOX 20
Correspondence including: approximately 30 letters from Kenna to Basclain whist in London, 1980; letters from Kenna’s sister Mary, ca 1974 -ca 1979; letters between Kenna and Basclain whilst Kenna was in Canberra at the Australian National Playwrights Conference, May 1977; letters from Basclain to Kenna whilst he was away in London, 1986; letter from Martin McKenna of Wee Waa to his daughter May, 1 January 1909, copies of letters sent by Kenna to family whist he was in London, 1948, 1961-1969, 1974
Transcript of interview with Hazel de Berg from the National Library of Australia, 1972
Family history documents including ‘Origin of the McKennas’ 1972, and family tree
Various draft manuscripts for ‘An Australian life’ by Edward James Kenna and Peter Kenna 
Marriage certificate of Martin Kenna and Anna Maria O’Connor, 30 October 1872
Ideas for radio and television
Poems including ‘The gnomes of Gibberagong’

BOX 21
Reviews, programmes, tickets, news cuttings, posters, royalties, 1975-2001
Contracts relating to screenplays adaptations of ‘The cat who spoke’, and ‘The umbrella woman’, ca 1983
Correspondence between Peter Basclain, and Fiona Inglis and Pippa Masson (Curtis Brown literary agents) relating to Sydney Theatre Company production of ‘A Hard God’, 2005
STC contract for staging of ‘A Hard God’, 2006
Press kit from Sydney Theatre Company production of A Hard God, 2006

BOX 22
Correspondence, 1981-1987. Subjects include: submissions to literary agents in the US, Ireland, and Australia; requests for permission to stage and publish plays by Kenna; barking dog at 19 Merton Street Rozelle; estate of the late Irene Felicia Hilder; agreement for option of ‘The Cassidy Album’; various agreements with theatre companies for production of plays by Kenna; correspondence, agreements, and legal issues relating to production of film The Umbrella Woman; legal dispute involving the Australian Film Commission and Margaret Kelly; New York Times obituary of Kenna’s literary agent Frieda Fishbein

BOX 23
Notes and drafts for biography of Edward James Kenna, ‘An Australian Life’
Summary of royalties from 1984 season of ‘A Hard God’ at The Playhouse, Perth; reviews from American newspapers for ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’, 1982; various theatre programmes and posters for productions of Kenna plays, 1972; programme of Adelaide Festival, 1978; flyer for film The Umbrella Woman.

BOX 24 
Kenna’s notes and analysis of his plays
Various manuscripts for plays ‘Buffalo-Grass’ ca 1979, ‘She passed through the fair’, ‘Charlie’s Desert: a play for radio’, ‘Naughty Lady Lavender, or Shame, Sham, and Circumstance’; short stories ‘The legend of fire’ 1952, ‘Sketch of my own life and experience’, ‘The wind and the rose’ 1952-53, ‘Trespassers’, ‘Yesterday, stay where you were’, ‘Who dropped that sandbag’, ‘Fables in fact’, ‘The cockie’; poems ‘Holy communion’ 1950, ‘Emuo Ruo: a non epic poem’; music compositions ‘Ain’t artists got eyes?’, ‘Fool heart’, ‘Main Street, Blue Town’, ‘Clarrie’, ‘My cave man’; article ‘Jewish humour’
Audition pieces for characters Thelma and Marge, The Umbrella Woman
Resource materials for students and teachers relating to ‘A Hard God’

BOX 25
Various manuscript plays and screenplays, ca 1950s-ca 1980s. Titles include: ‘Outline for a dramatic documentary on a western suburbs housewife’, ‘Blood of strangers’, ‘The Butler Did It’ 1956, ‘The Unknown Soldier’, ‘The leader of the band’, ‘The kitchen’, ‘All the loving in hell’, ‘Someone for Daphne’, ‘Beak of the early bird’ (stage version of ‘Goodbye Gloria’), ‘The two-face clock’

BOX 26
21 manuscript plays and screenplays, mostly written during time in London, ca 1950s-ca 1960s. Titles include: ‘The Spectators’, ‘Reggie’, ABC TV version of ‘Goodbye, Gloria, Goodbye’ 1966’, ‘Sins committed at the passion patch’, ‘The Emigrants’

BOX 27
14 manuscript plays and screenplays. Titles include: ‘Dust of Polish by Norman Lindsay: adapted for television by Peter Kenna’, ‘The Trap’, ‘Miss Rosalie Adorable: a musical satire’, ‘Faces of virtue, faces of evil’ based on Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, first of Kenna’s plays to be performed ‘Before the carnival’

BOX 28
Correspondence received, 1950s. Subjects include: approaches to and responses from agents about sale of plays; registration of copyright for ‘The Slaughter of St Teresa’s Day’, 1959; letters from The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust relating to radio plays by Kenna, 1959.

Correspondence received, 1960-1965. Subjects include: approaches to theatre companies by Kenna; thoughts of Robin Lovejoy (The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust) on play ‘Muriel’s virtues’; literary agent’s updates on selling plays in London; responses from various theatre companies in London; royalties from plays performed; rejection letters from the BBC and ABC.

Correspondence received, 1966. Subjects include: various letters from mother; various letters from Michael Cook; rejection letter from United Telecasters Sydney Limited; return of scripts from The Old Tote Theatre Company; various scripts by George Sheedy.

Correspondence received, 1967. Subjects include: various letters from Michael Cook; message from John H. Stewart (Research Department, Sydney Hospital); various letters from mother; various letters from Monica Curtain; various letters from brother Jim Kenna; sister Agnes Reid.
                                                                                                      
Correspondence received, 1968. Correspondents include: Maggie Dence, Michael Cook, mother, Michael Frost, Monica Curtain, niece Annette Reid, sister Agnes Reid.

Correspondence received, 1969. Correspondents include: mother, sister Agnes, Monica Curtain, Maggie Dence, agent Peter Grose (Curtis Brown), Michael Cook, Gerald Sheedy. Folder also contains rejection letter from E. P. S. Lewin, author and publisher; income tax assessment from Inland Revenue UK; papers relating to stay in The Royal Free Hospital.

BOX 29
Correspondence received, 1970. Correspondents include: Monica Curtain, Michael Cook, Vera La Motte, Peter Grose (Curtis Brown), Gerald Sheedy, Ray F. Cook, mother, Agnes Reid, Annette Reid, Jon Ewing, Ray Lawler, Maggie Dence, Freyda De Silva. Folder also contains rejection letter for ‘Listen closely’, letters from Inland Revenue UK, application for travel grant, correspondence with Sydney Hospital relating to dialysis treatment.

Correspondence received, 1971. Correspondents include: Suzanne Baker, Monica Curtain, Katharine Brisbane, Michael Cook, mother, Roger McDougall, Maggie Dence, Mrs B. Hilda Sexton, Robert Bruning, P. Puckridge. Folder also contains transport invoices, medical bills, reference from Green & Stone art supplies shop, funeral card of Matilda J. Reid.

Correspondence received, 1972. Correspondents include: Monica Curtain, Freyda De Silva, Ronnie H., Phyllis Margaret Puckridge, Roger McDougall, Jim Kenna, Margaret Klucis, Martin Kenna, Hazel Plant. Folder also contains contact with Currency Press for Australian radio broadcasting rights to ‘Talk to the moon’, correspondence with the ABC relating to adaptation of Lindsay novel ‘Dust of polish?’, letters from National Library of Australia and The University of Sydney relating to copying of manuscripts and oral history interview.

Correspondence received, 1973. Correspondents include: Monica Curtain, Michael Cook, Bob Ellis, Agnes Reid, Pat Kenna, Michael Laurence, Fairfax Hospital, South Australian Film Corporation.

BOX 30
Business correspondence received, 1974. Correspondents include: BBC, Currency Methuen Drama Publishers, South Australian Film Corporation, The Australian Writers’ Guild, National Institute of Dramatic Art, The Old Tote Theatre Company,The  Australian Playwrights Theatre, ABC, Literature Board (Australian Council for the Arts), Melbourne Theatre Company, Howard Nicholson (Writer’s Agent), Kavanagh Productions.

Get well Cards and telegrams received by Kenna following kidney transplant, 1974. Well-wishers include: Dorothy Hewitt, Jim McNeil, May Pusey, Maggi Gray

Personal correspondence received, January-June 1974. Correspondents include: Patricia Kennedy, Brian Barnes, Agnes Reid, Nick Enright, Jim Kenna, Michael Laurence, Mary Gordon, Michael Cook, Ronaldo Hay, Ruth Niland (Park), Ron Blair, Freyda De Silva, John Hargreaves.

Personal correspondence received, July-December 1974. Correspondents include: Moya Wood, Pat Jackson, David Young, Jim McNeil, Maggie Dence, Alma De Groen, Ronald Hay, Garry and Moira Eastman, Brian Barnes, Jim Kenna, Stella Adler Wilson, Mary Gordon, Evangelos Patsikatheodoran, Ruth Park, Nick Enright

Correspondence received whilst residing at 27-209 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 1974. Correspondents include: Jim Kenna, Agnes Reid, Currency Methuen Drama Pty Ltd Publishers, Ronald Hay, Nick Enright, Howard Nicholson, Maggie Dence

BOX 31
Correspondence received, 1975. Correspondents include: Kath Pearson, Kathryn M. Pratt (Copyright Department, BBC), Monica Curtain, Kevin Hambly, Nick Enright, Errol O’Neill, Frank Heatherly (Plays Department, BBC), Anne Robertson (Field Librarian, State Library of NSW), Eric Tayler (ABC).

Correspondence received, 1976. Correspondents include: Nick Enright, Kath Pearson, Monica Curtain, Julian Glover, Paul Iles, Phyllis Puckridge, David Williamson, Kevin Miles, Michael E. Costitgan (Literary Board, Australia Council), George W. (The National Institute of Dramatic Art), Wayne Maddern (General Manager, South Australian Theatre Company), Bettina Dickson, Stanley Walsh (Director, Australian National Playwrights Conference).

Business correspondence received, 1977. Correspondents include: Literature Board of the Australia Council, Q Theatre Group, Anthony Steel (Artistic Director, Adelaide Festival of Arts), E. E. Eder (Bursar, The New South Wales Institute of Technology, Vince Moran (Writers’ Liaison Officer, Crawford Productions), Colin George (Artistic Director, South Australian Theatre Company). Folder also contains newsletters of The Dramatists Guild, and Australian Writer’s Guild.

Personal Correspondence received, 1977. Correspondents include: Edward Kenna, Monica Curtain, Jane Rose, Amanda Robson, Pat Kenna, Lloyd L. Fogarty (Auvergne Station), Steven Harvey, C. R. Lucas (Senior Medical Officer, Fairfield Hospital), Malcolm Purcell, Mary Gordon, Margaret Basclain.

BOX 32
Business correspondence received, 1978. Correspondents include: H. Stephens (English Studies Coordinator, St Patricks College), Literature Board of the Australia Council, Barry Waters (WEA), H. G. Kippax (Acting Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald), G. A. Wilkes (English Department, University of Sydney), Jenny Palmer (ABC).

Personal correspondence received, 1978. Correspondents include: Nick Enright, Steven Harvey, Steve J., Eileen Ford, Dot Young, Yvonne Hopkins, Ron Rodger, Dallas Bicknell, Monica Curtain, James Kenna, Harry Collins, Jim Searle.

Business correspondence received, 1979. Correspondents include: Paul Iles, Hayes Gordon, John Bell (Nimrod Theatre), Philip Parsons (School of Drama, University of New South Wales), Elaine Lindsay (Literature Board, Australia Council), George Whaley (Head of Acting Course, NIDA), Paul Iles (Nimrod Theatre), Richard Wherrett (Director, The Sydney Theatre Company), Ted Willis (Lord Willis).

Personal Correspondence,1979. Correspondents include: Frank Hausser, D. M. O’Connor, Nick Enright, Ted Willis (Lord Willis), Jennifer Compton, Malcolm Purcell.

Letters received, 1980. Correspondents include: Katharine Brisbane, Currency Press, E. J. Kenna, Jan Blake, Robin Lovejoy, Maggie Dence, Nick Enright.

Correspondence, 1981. Correspondents include: E. J. Kenna, Mary Gordon, Lloyd L. Fogarty, Frieda Fishbein, Nick Enright, Bea Aston.

BOX 33
Correspondence, 1982. Correspondents include: E. J. Kenna, Ray Cook, Frieda Fishbein, Kevin Jackson, Joe Anderson, Robyn Archer, Nancy Turner, various requests from amateur theatre companies seeking permission to perform plays by Kenna.

Letters received, 1983. Correspondents include: Nick Enright, Stephen Gatesworth, Rick Raftos (Australian Writers’ Guild), Jim Pearson, E. J. Kenna, Chris Thomson. Also includes two royalty statements.

Letters received, 1984. Correspondents include: Agnes Reid, Samantha Reid, Edward J. Kenna, Di Drew (ABC).

Letters received, 1985. Correspondents include: Ronnie, Barbara, Nick Enright, E. J. Kenna, Pat Kenna, Bettina Welch, Ray Cook, Sam Reid, Rachel Ward, Barry Humphries.

Letters received, 1986. Correspondents include: Geraldine Turner, Nick Enright, John Bell, Agnes Reid.

Letters received, 1987. Correspondents include: Jim Kenna, Agnes Reid, Robyn Griffith (Production Co-ordinator, Radio Drama & Features, ABC), Denis Kenna

BOX 34
Correspondence with literary agents in USA and UK, including Frieda Fishbein and Eric Glass, 1976-1980
Contract for off-Broadway production of ‘Trespassers will be prosecuted’, 1977
Manuscript drafts of play ‘Buffalo grass’, ca 1977
Correspondence relating to rights to perform plays by Kenna, mostly amateur theatre companies, 1979-1980
Contracts for plays and screenplays ‘Furtive Love’, 1980; ‘The Cassidy Album’, 1978; ‘The cat who spoke’, 1984; ‘A hard god’, 1973, 1980, 1981.

BOX 35
Correspondence, business and personal, approximately 200 letters, undated.

BOX 36
Approximately 300 postcards received by Kenna
Hand puppet

BOX 37
Various manuscripts by Kenna

BOXES 38-42
Printed material, mos y theatre programmes from UK and Australia

BOX 43
18 diaries and address books, 1970s-1982; 2 passports; bank passbooks

BOX 44
Approximately 200 photographic prints. Subjects include: friends and family; sef-portraits; publicity photographs; theatres; stills from plays; parties
2 reel-to-reel audio tapes

BOX 45
Scrapbook, ca 1945-ca 1965. Approximately 60 pages, containing news cuttings; sketches; approximately 150 photographs including family portraits, holiday shots, and selfies; theatre programmes; greetings cards.

PXD 1430
7 set design drawings

POSTERS/2016/90-96
Sydney Bridge celebrations, March 19th 1932, be there! 1932. (POSTERS/2016/90)
Nimrod, Martin Sharp, 1982? (POSTERS/2016/91)
'The umbrella woman', 1987. (POSTERS/2016/92)
'Trespassers will be prosecuted', by Peter Kenna [Cleveland Playhouse], 1982. (POSTERS/2016/93)
'A hard god' by Peter Kenna [The Playhouse], [1984]. (POSTERS/2016/94)
Peter Kenna's 'Furtive love', [New Theatre], 1992. (POSTERS/2016/95)
Sydney 2000, Games of the XXVII Olympiad, live on the Seven Network, 2000. (POSTERS/2016/96)









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